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Pima County (Ariz.) County Medical Examiner

Jurisdiction Pima County, Ariz.
Web site http://www.pima.gov/...
Accreditation None  
Forensic Pathologists
6
Board Certified 		0
Part-time Certified 		0
Uncertified 		0
Part-time Uncertified
Fellows 0
Note Pima County performs between 250 and 450 contract autopsies each year, but did not provide breakdowns of those cases. Annual budget is the actual budget for each year except 2010 in which case it is the adopted budget for FY 2009-2010.
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
  Autopsy Rate vs. Expected
expected
 
+35%
 
+43%
 
+46%
 
+62%
N/A
N/A
N/A
Population
 
924K
 
949K
 
975K
 
997K
 
1.01M
 
1.02M
 
N/A
Autopsies
 
1,172
 
1,380
 
1,388
 
1,413
 
1,370
 
1,307
 
1,320
  Contract Autopsies
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Forensic Pathologists
 
5
 
5
 
5
 
5
 
6
 
6
 
6
Part-time/ Provisional Forensic Pathologists
 
N/A
 
N/A
 
N/A
 
N/A
 
N/A
 
N/A
 
N/A
Annual Budget
 
$2.06M
 
$2.19M
 
$2.42M
 
$2.53M
 
$2.92M
 
$2.81M
 
$2.82M